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Bringing Design Into the Light

How Didier Krzentowski Created an Illuminating Collection

No matter how passionate a person is about design, there are only so many sofas or cabinets one can accommodate—even in the most expansive of homes. There is usually, however, room for one more light.

This, at any rate, is the view of Didier Krzentowski. For the past three decades, the co-founder of the esteemed Paris contemporary-design gallery Galerie Kreo has been collecting lights. "I haven't stopped thinking about them for 30 years," he says, "It is a total commitment."